Chapter 10

After pocketing the bank card, Gina glanced at Mason, who was lurking behind Ethan. She signaled. “Bring him here.”

Fuming, Ethan, blaming Mason for his humiliation, grabbed him and threw him in front of Gina.

Gina flexed her wrist and landed a punch on Mason’s trembling face, causing his teeth to rattle and sending him crashing to the ground, his world going dark.

With her foot pressing down on Mason’s face, Gina demanded, “Delete the post, clear my name, and apologize.”

Tears and snot running down his face, Mason blubbered. Tll delete it. Please, get off me. I’m sorry, I screwed up, I’m the

Worst

Aria scoffed. “Suddenly all apologetic, huh? Thought you were Mr. Tough Guy.”

While sobbing. Mason scrambled to access the campus network on his phone, deleted the defamatory post, and published an apology under his real name.

Aria commented on the post right away. [All fluff, no stuff. Seriously, who buys this trashy gossip?]

Some recognized Aria’s account and, looking to curry favor or genuinely outraged, slammed the original post for spreading

Tumors.

Yet, others sensed something off about Mason’s apology, speculating he might have been threatened. But it was hard to imagine who would bother defending Gina, notorious as she was.

The apology stirred less buzz than the original rumor, but Gina wasn’t bothered. She knew many didn’t care for the truth; they just relished the chance to stomp on her a bit more.

The whole mess killed Ethan’s mood for drinking, prompting him to leave.

bid Aria farewell and returned to her downtown apartment.

called Michael to manage the 600 million dollars the Miller

Orphanage and the rest to build schools in

care of a kind–hearted director who often dipped into his own pockets to keep it running. Over twenty years, the orphanage expanded, and Gina was more than willing

“Understood,” Michael responded.

like someone else is digging into that

an eyebrow.

by a well–off couple who had a son. The couple was good to her, but the son was standoffish,

act on it, tragedy struck: the couple was found dead, their family wiped out, and the son vanished, Cina, having been out, narrowly escaped

them.

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and Gina was determined to find the killer. And she was not the only one who

it be their biological son?‘ Gina pondered.

the boy before, only finding a

clenched her eyes shut. The murder was executed with brutal efficiency, leaving no trace.

I’ll find them and tear them to pieces, Gina silently vowed.

some feelers, and see if they take the bait. She instructed Michael,

hanging up, Gina hit the shower, then flopped onto her bed and messaged someone named

Should I have someone swing by to pick it up? Wait, scratch that. How about you come over for dinner tomorrow? You bailed before I

Rather than giving out her address, she sent him a pin to a nearby bus stop. [Just meet me

Neil replied: [Deal!]

slowly pulled up. The

me.” Gina nodded.

you, the driver said, motioning towards the car with a polite gesture.

the car, bringing along two jars of the potion.

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